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Disability rate of veterans: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Disability rate of veterans (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Veterans' education, work, poverty and disability by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 32 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 26.6 %
RI 28.2 %
DE 31.3 %
CT 29.5 %
NJ 30.1 %
MD 25.6 %
MA 29.5 %
VT 32 %
NH 26.9 %

Lowest: 25 to 29.6 %
Group 2: 29.6 to 31.3 %
Group 3: 31.3 to 32.4 %
Group 4: 32.4 to 34.2 %
Highest: 34.2 to 41.3 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Veterans are older on average than nonveterans; small-state estimates have wide margins of error.


1	Arkansas	41.3
2	West Virginia	38
3	Oklahoma	37.4
4	New Mexico	37.1
5	Louisiana	36.8
6	Mississippi	36
7	Oregon	35
8	Missouri	34.6
9	Alabama	34.2
9	Indiana	34.2
9	Kentucky	34.2
12	Montana	34
13	Michigan	33.8
13	Tennessee	33.8
15	Nevada	33.7
16	Texas	33.3
17	Utah	33
18	Florida	32.7
18	Idaho	32.7
20	South Carolina	32.5
21	Wyoming	32.4
22	Washington	32.2
23	Georgia	32
23	Vermont	32
25	Kansas	31.9
26	Arizona	31.7
26	California	31.7
28	North Carolina	31.4
29	Delaware	31.3
29	Maine	31.3
29	Ohio	31.3
32	Pennsylvania	31.2
33	New York	31.1
34	Illinois	30.9
35	Hawaii	30.3
36	Alaska	30.2
37	Minnesota	30.1
37	New Jersey	30.1
37	Wisconsin	30.1
40	Nebraska	30
41	Iowa	29.6
42	Connecticut	29.5
42	Massachusetts	29.5
44	North Dakota	29.4
45	South Dakota	29.2
46	Colorado	29
47	Rhode Island	28.2
48	New Hampshire	26.9
49	District of Columbia	26.6
50	Maryland	25.6
51	Virginia	25

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2101: Veteran Status. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by disability rate of veterans (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S2101; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-disability-rate-of-veterans/

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